ReSC's ncWMS software is now available packaged with the excellent OSGeo-Live DVD. This is:
"a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Xubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.
It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation."
(quotes from the OSGeo-Live website)
The DVD contains a pre-installed version of ncWMS together with sample data. Thanks to Cameron Shorter and Guy Griffiths for making this happen!
Monday, September 30, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Workshop on Citizen Science, Royal Society, 13th September 2013
eResearch South will be hosting a 1 day workshop on the 13th September 2013 at the Royal Society, London to investigate the current state and future of Citizen Science as a research methodology. This event will bring together leading researchers from climateprediction.net, Galaxy Zoo, Old Weather and SOCIAM to discuss their success and insights alongside an interactive day where will be chart where this paradigm can go.
The event will close with a reception to celebrate 10 years of climate prediction.net with guest speakers from some of the sponsoring media organisations and the project volunteers.
Please see the e-Research South website for details and registration: http://www.eresearchsouth.ac.uk/events/current-and-future-directions-of-citizen-science.
The event will close with a reception to celebrate 10 years of climate prediction.net with guest speakers from some of the sponsoring media organisations and the project volunteers.
Please see the e-Research South website for details and registration: http://www.eresearchsouth.ac.uk/events/current-and-future-directions-of-citizen-science.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Paper on ncWMS published in Environmental Modelling and Software
A paper describing ReSC's ncWMS software has been published in Environmental Modelling and Software as an Open Access paper. This is the paper to use as the primary means of citing ncWMS in the literature.
DOI
10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.04.002
Citation
J.D. Blower, A.L. Gemmell, G.H. Griffiths, K. Haines, A. Santokhee, X. Yang, A Web Map Service implementation for the visualization of multidimensional gridded environmental data. Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 47, September 2013, Pages 218–224
Abstract
We describe ncWMS, an implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Web Map Service (WMS) specification for multidimensional gridded environmental data. ncWMS can read data in a large number of common scientific data formats – notably the NetCDF format with the Climate and Forecast conventions – then efficiently generate map imagery in thousands of different coordinate reference systems. It is designed to require minimal configuration from the system administrator and, when used in conjunction with a suitable client tool, provides end users with an interactive means for visualizing data without the need to download large files or interpret complex metadata. It is also used as a “bridging” tool providing interoperability between the environmental science community and users of geographic information systems. ncWMS implements a number of extensions to the WMS standard in order to fulfil some common scientific requirements, including the ability to generate plots representing timeseries and vertical sections. We discuss these extensions and their impact upon present and future interoperability. We discuss the conceptual mapping between the WMS data model and the data models used by gridded data formats, highlighting areas in which the mapping is incomplete or ambiguous. We discuss the architecture of the system and particular technical innovations of note, including the algorithms used for fast data reading and image generation. ncWMS has been widely adopted within the environmental data community and we discuss some of the ways in which the software is integrated within data infrastructures and portals.
DOI
10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.04.002
Citation
J.D. Blower, A.L. Gemmell, G.H. Griffiths, K. Haines, A. Santokhee, X. Yang, A Web Map Service implementation for the visualization of multidimensional gridded environmental data. Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 47, September 2013, Pages 218–224
Abstract
We describe ncWMS, an implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Web Map Service (WMS) specification for multidimensional gridded environmental data. ncWMS can read data in a large number of common scientific data formats – notably the NetCDF format with the Climate and Forecast conventions – then efficiently generate map imagery in thousands of different coordinate reference systems. It is designed to require minimal configuration from the system administrator and, when used in conjunction with a suitable client tool, provides end users with an interactive means for visualizing data without the need to download large files or interpret complex metadata. It is also used as a “bridging” tool providing interoperability between the environmental science community and users of geographic information systems. ncWMS implements a number of extensions to the WMS standard in order to fulfil some common scientific requirements, including the ability to generate plots representing timeseries and vertical sections. We discuss these extensions and their impact upon present and future interoperability. We discuss the conceptual mapping between the WMS data model and the data models used by gridded data formats, highlighting areas in which the mapping is incomplete or ambiguous. We discuss the architecture of the system and particular technical innovations of note, including the algorithms used for fast data reading and image generation. ncWMS has been widely adopted within the environmental data community and we discuss some of the ways in which the software is integrated within data infrastructures and portals.
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